CHATTANOOGA ENGINEERS CLUB
http://www.chattanooga.net/engineer/CEC
NEXT EVENT___________________________________________________ Monday, April 30, 1:00 p.m.
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant
Field Trip: Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (Reservations Required)
AT OUR LAST MEETING _________________________________________
A group of UTC senior engineering students, under the auspices of AVS, designed and built a mobile test facility to investigate the interactions between battery packs and gas turbines of hybrid electric buses. Their objective was to develop a method that would measure the reaction of these systems to dynamic loads and in so doing, be able to improve the operation, especially the efficiency, of future bus models.
At their presentation to us last Monday, student team members, James Lowery and John Passafiume, Jr. provided us an overview of the approach they took in designing the mobile test stand and their use of LabVIEW as the data acquisition tool for collecting and displaying the data. The system monitors the voltage output from the buses' batteries, the power output from the turbine, and the temperature of several batteries within each battery pack. This allows researchers to determine how the battery temperature affects the voltage output and how that, in turn, effects the power output of the turbine.
FUTURE MONDAY MEETINGS __________________________________
May 7: "Nuclear Power: Today and in the Future" Dr. Harold Dodds - Director, UTK Nuclear Engineering Department
May 14 "SF6: the Hidden Impact Associated with the Industrial Use this Versatile and Effective Compound." - Tom Wojtalic - TVA
May 21: "A Day-time Corona Camera for Surveying Power Transmission Lines and Substations". - Barry Gore - TVA
May 28: No meeting - In observance of Memorial Day
June 4: "SWAT Jobs and Porto-Sags -- Peeling the Power Quality Onion" - Arshad Mansoor, Engineering Manager, EPRI-PEAC, Knoxville June 11: "TVA's Regenesys Project - Installation of a 12 -Mw Flow Battery for Peak Shaving and Load Shifting". - Joe Hogland and Mick Ray - TVA
June 18: "The Electric Power Industry - Its History and Likely Future". Terry Boston - TVA
June 25: "Intelligent Transportation Systems" Dr. Rekha Pillai - Oak Ridge National Lab
WHERE DO WE MEET?__________________________________________
All the meetings listed above will be held at the Cellar Restaurant – on the basement floor of the Tallan Building at the corner of Chestnut Street and MLK Blvd. Our meeting room and luncheon service are available by 11:40 a.m.
Lunch buffet is available for $10 per person. No reservation is required.
Our business meeting begins at noon, followed by the speaker's presentation around 12:15 p.m. The meeting adjourns at 1:00 p.m. Parking is available free of charge at the Days Inn across the street (M.L. King Blvd. and Carter Street). If you park there, please leave some type of note on your car's dashboard to indicate that you are attending the Chattanooga Engineers Club.